The method FeedTime::timestamp returns the Unix-epoch timestamp corresponding to the text date/time previously provided to the FeedTime constructor or to :set.

If FeedTime was completely unable to parse a date and time out of the provided text, FeedTime::timestamp will return NULL.

Declaration

 class FeedTime {
      /* ... */
      function timestamp () { /* ... */ }
      /* ... */
 }

Sample

 $time = new FeedTime('March 1, 2010 12:00pm');
 $ts = $time->timestamp();